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About · Since 2007

Work directly with experienced healthcare leaders.

Social Enterprise Advisors helps healthcare organizations improve operations, manage risk, and make practical decisions about technology. Our principals bring experience in healthcare operations, privacy, security, and IT, and lead each engagement from the initial assessment through delivery.

Principal · Operations & AI Governance

Carmen Wiedenhoeft

Operations modernization and AI governance

Carmen leads client engagements in operations modernization and AI governance. Her thirty years of experience include automation programs at AT&T, forty technical programs at Kaiser Permanente, the Care Studio deployment at Ascension for Google Health, a year running operations at an AI-agent company, and a Medicare Advantage membership operation she runs today. She uses workflow mapping to identify where agentic workflows can help, establish human controls, and evaluate how a proposed tool would change day-to-day work. Carmen leads the client relationship and connects the findings to decisions, priorities, and a practical delivery plan.

Operations modernization engagements

Principal · Systems, Security & Technical Delivery

Kurt Wiedenhoeft

Infrastructure, security, EMR modernization, and agent-built software under human controls

Kurt leads the systems, security and technical delivery practice. A network engineer, software developer and startup founder, he has built and run systems since 1990 and built for the web since 1995. For a care-delivery group that works with Medicare Advantage health plans he wrote the original electronic health record, led its patient-centered medical home and health IT certifications, and now leads its replacement: a system built largely by software agents under written human gates, with the old one in production throughout. He runs that group’s infrastructure as well, from colocation virtualization and zero-downtime deployment to segmented networks and layered encrypted backup for a HIPAA-regulated system. In engagements he runs the technical sessions with client engineers and vendors, and his team carries the engineering and verification work under the principals’ review.

Modernization and technical delivery engagements Full profile

Senior engineers from the Bay Area technology community support delivery under the principals’ review. Each engagement has a named lead responsible for the work and your relationship with the team.

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What you can expect

Systems your team can maintain

We use standard tools and formats, and document the decisions behind them so your team can support the work over time.

A clear record of the work

Monthly reports document completed work, findings, and next steps, with supporting records you can review.

Clear fees

Scope and fees are agreed before work begins, with unusual complexity addressed in the proposal.

Based in Palo Alto

In practice since 2007, we serve healthcare organizations nationwide, with a particular focus on California’s independent medical practices. Engagements combine remote collaboration with on-site work as needed.

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Tell us what needs attention. In a 30-minute introduction, we’ll discuss your situation, relevant engagements, and possible next steps.

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